About Crown
Crown is the Unicode character 👑 at codepoint U+1F451 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Reference
A crown filed as clothing. U+1F451 sits in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, dates from Unicode 6.0, has general category So and carries Emoji_Presentation, so no variation selector is needed. Unicode's chart gives it no annotation and no cross-reference whatsoever — the name is the entire entry. Its subgroup in the standard's test data is clothing, which holds forty-seven fully qualified entries and puts this character with hats, shoes and bags rather than with anything about rank. CLDR's keyword list is where a second reading is recorded: alongside crown, king, queen, royal, royalty, medieval and family sits the single word win.
Typical uses
- Royalty and monarchy in the plain sense, which is what the name gives
- Marking a winner or a first place, which is what the keyword win records
- Clothing and accessory contexts, which is where the standard files it
At a glance
- U+1F451, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs; Unicode 6.0; general category So
- Emoji version E0.6; Emoji_Presentation, so no U+FE0F is needed
- No chart annotation and no cross-reference of any kind
- Filed with clothing, a subgroup of forty-seven fully qualified entries
- No HTML named entity. Write 👑 or 👑
Historical Notes
Origins
How a crown came to work as a compliment is not something the code chart records. The entry is the name and nothing else.
Unicode
Added in Unicode 6.0, published in 2010, as emoji version E0.6, in the block that absorbed the bulk of the early pictographs. Its subgroup, clothing, is one of the larger ones in the standard's test data at forty-seven fully qualified entries, forty-four of them single codepoints.
Two files, two answers
Asking what this character means gets different answers depending on which file is consulted. UnicodeData gives a name and a category. NamesList, which carries the aliases and cross-references, is silent — there is no entry beyond the name. CLDR's annotation file gives nine keywords, and one of them is win, a word that has nothing to do with headgear. That is the division of labour by design: the standard fixes the identity of the character and declines to fix its meaning, and the annotation data tracks what people actually search for.
Developer Notes
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How to Use Crown
To use the Crown symbol (👑) in HTML, insert the
entity 👑 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 👑 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F451';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F451}' evaluates to 👑. In Python source, write '\U0001F451'.
The character encodes to F0 9F 91 91 as UTF-8 bytes and D83D DC51 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 128081.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.
Things to know
- No chart annotation exists, so there is no formal alias to key on and no cross-reference to a related character.
- Outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so a surrogate pair D83D DC51 in UTF-16 and a naive character count of two.
- Not Emoji_Modifier_Base and not a variation-sequence base.
- East Asian Width Wide; line break class ID.
- Filed under clothing rather than under any symbol or status category, which matters if you group emoji by subgroup.
- No named HTML entity. Write 👑 or 👑.
In the Wild
An encyclopaedia article on the crown as headgear contains none of this character. That is the pattern reference writing keeps: prose about an object uses the word, not the picture.
The crown appears twice in CLDR's annotation data and once as a chart cell, in each case being defined rather than used. Pages change; this is what those showed on the day.
FAQ
Does the standard say anything about what it means?
No. The chart entry is the name and nothing else — no alias, no cross-reference, no usage note.
Why is it filed under clothing?
Because the subgroup describes what the object is, not what it signifies. Hats, shoes and bags are in the same group.
Is there a tiara or a different crown?
Not in this subgroup under that name. This is the only character named CROWN in the emoji set.
Is there an HTML entity?
No named one. Write 👑 or 👑.